"Master Harold"... and the boys by Athol Fugard, is based the relationship between Hally, a 17-year-old white boy, and Sam and Willie, two black men. As Hally falls victim to the attitudes of white supremacy and racial intolerances accompanying Apartheid policy, their lifelong friendship is destroyed."It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards." (Hally pp. 15) This "bloody awful world" this quote is referring to is an example of ignorance and the passiveness of its participants.
The idea of whites being of a superior intellectual class to blacks, a prejudice that still pervades modern society, emerges from the play as one of the predominant themes. A example of this can be s
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